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May 18, 2020, 2:22 pm
IBC, Europe's biggest broadcast and OTT event, will not go forward in Amsterdam in September as planned. "Right now, despite the best work of the IBC team and our Dutch colleagues, there are still many unknowns," said IBC CEO Michael Criimp in a statement. "Therefore, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to deliver a safe and valuable event to the quality expected of IBC."

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May 18, 2020, 2:22 pm
If you are focused on Media Composer, Premiere Pro, or Final Cut Pro X, then it’s easy to forget that there are a number of other capable NLEs in the wild – especially for the Windows/PC platform. One of those is VEGAS Pro, which was originally developed by Sonic Foundry and came to market in 1999. At first VEGAS was a DAW, but video was quickly added, thus turning it into a competitive NLE. Over the years, the software development team moved to Sony (Sony Creative Software) and then to its new home, VEGAS Creative Software, owned by Magix, a German software company. Along with the VEGAS product line, Magix also handles the other creative apps from the Sonic Foundry/Sony family, including Acid and Sound Forge.

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May 16, 2020, 4:51 pm
When NBC’s The Blacklist was shutdown part-way into filming its final season 7 episode owing to the coronavirus pandemic, there weren’t too many options initially for how the show might be completed.

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May 16, 2020, 4:51 pm
There’s a lot more to making a selection in Pro Tools than just clicking and dragging with the Select Tool. Creating, moving, adjusting and extending selections make this a bigger subject than it at first appears. In this Premium Video Tutorial, Julian Rodgers looks at some of the ways selections can be created and used. Take a look and see whether you’re missing out on any useful techniques.

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May 15, 2020, 4:55 pm
It’s rare these days to come across a tool that works in an everyday video pipeline and yet sets a new precedent for what is possible. Lockdown, an After Effects plugin available via ae.scripts.com, is just such a tool. What’s more, during the shutdown (currently until the end of May) the developer is licensing it free for full use.

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May 15, 2020, 1:30 pm
Red Giant has released VFX Suite 1.5, a paid upgrade to its suite of After Effects plugins for common visual effects tasks like chroma keying, camera tracking, blemish removal and precomposing.

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May 15, 2020, 1:30 pm
Color management is a chaotic web of confusion for many artists. Most of this is a result of industry misinformation rather than anything inherently difficult in the subject. Well, fear not: we have the everyman’s guide to color management fundamentals. In this video, moviola.com’s Stickman goes over the entire color management workflow from removing input LUTs, through linear color corrections and compositing, to application of a final delivery LUT.